Reducing the height of a Walnut tree.

There were very high winds today in the
Abingdon area and I could see the Walnut tree at the end of my garden receiving
a real buffeting and as the tree is very mature it worried me that branches may
snap off falling on the speculative housing built with inches of my boundary.As far as I’m concerned if any branches fell
on property or people the other side of my boundary that’s their problem, I didn’t
ask them to build houses on farming land.

However much as it irks me I have given
thought to reducing the height of the Walnut tree by a third but I wonder if
that would lead to its demise and if not what time of the year could one carry
out such work.